Eliminating the immensely popular Imran Khan would not end the Pakistani army's crisis; it would unleash one that the Pakistani state may not survive.

A convergence of shifting global trends toward sustainability and digital industries and, more critically, a fundamental restructuring of federal-state relations, have enabled Sarawak’s transformation.

On November 17, Bangladesh’s International Crimes Tribunal (ICT) convicted and sentenced former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina to death in absentia, after a months-long trial that found her guilty of ordering a deadly crackdown on a student-led uprising last year.

Hong Kong is stuck in a governance vacuum, where neither democratic nor authoritarian accountability functions effectively.

Washington is making progress with a range of states: from staunch ally the Philippines to newer partner Vietnam and even Cambodia, where China’s influence dominates.

Murray Hunter was expected to appear before a court in mid-December following his indictment but his trial was postponed. Instead he attended a four-hour Senate Committee hearing into enhancing anti-SLAPP legislation.

Western strategic dissonance, U.N. cowardice, a gutted civil society, and cynical Thai aggression are providing cover for a weakened Hun Sen.

After years of relative marginalization in global affairs, Pakistan was able to reclaim a prominent position on the world stage.

Interministerial discord made a recent comeback, pitting the so-called “self-reliance faction” against the “pro-alliance faction” over how best to approach North Korea.

By electing the highly unpopular and recently ousted PM Oli as party chief, the CPN-UML has thumbed its nose at the Gen Z demand for fresh and young leaders.

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While it seems clear that the Bondi terrorists were inspired by the Islamic State, their links to Islamic State factions in the Philippines, let alone claims that they received training, seem tenuous at best.

Xi’s invocation of tributary history is less a claim over sovereignty than it is an attack on the U.S.-Japan alliance.

424 Cambodian troops have been wounded and 13 killed in one province alone since the outbreak of fighting with Thailand on December 7.

After a 10-year-old Tajik boy was killed at a Moscow-area school last week, Dushanbe has spoken out, calling the attack an act of ethnic hatred, but have left bilateral relations unchanged.

The Indian Navy’s combat aviation capability is taking wing. A new flotilla of capital warships is being equipped with new multi-role helicopters.

In 2004, Aceh was hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2025, Indonesia’s most disaster-aware province was among the worst hit by floods.

Will the Kim regime be successful in uprooting this core element of North Korea’s black market economy?

What is Hindu nationalism, really?

Although Türkiye is geographically distant from South Asia, it has a history of involvement in the region because of religion and geopolitics.

China’s approach to post-Assad Syria is defined less by opportunity than by caution.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court has dismissed jailed former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the remainder of his sentence for corruption at his home, ruling that a royal document allowing the move was invalid.

Since the 2016 death of the country’s first president, Islam Karimov, his successor, Shavkat Mirziyoyev, has strived to present himself as a reformer forging a “New Uzbekistan.”

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s claim that there has been “notable progress in governance and stability” in Myanmar borders on military propaganda.

The Myanmar junta’s polls, which will be held in three phases starting on December 28, are intended to strengthen military rule by erecting a façade of civilian government.

Australia may feel it has no choice but to implement hate speech laws, as the pain of what has occurred is far too great to risk a repetition. Yet to keep those who perpetuated this month’s massacre and their ilk from winning, Australia needs to recommit to the ideals of liberalism.

Online scamming operations are entangled in the Cambodia-Thailand conflict, but there is no evidence that they were causally responsible for the outbreak of fighting.

A persistent labor-time gap reflects deeper features of Korea’s economic model rather than cultural habits alone.

By electing the highly unpopular and recently ousted PM Oli as party chief, the CPN-UML has thumbed its nose at the Gen Z demand for fresh and young leaders.

Cambodia has released no official figures on military losses in its conflict with Thailand. But figures reviewed by The Diplomat from a Cambodian provincial health official in the frontline province of Preah Vihear, suggest the cost has been significant, at least on that front.

While the timing of the Australian attackers’ trip to the Philippines warrants scrutiny, the Islamic State’s presence in the country is much diminished today.

The seemingly endless search for doomed Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is set to resume on December 30, having briefly restarted in March, only to be delayed until the end of the year due to poor weather conditions.

Due to high levels of bitterness and mistrust on both sides of the Cambodia-Thailand conflict, the December 24 talks will be the first step on the long road back to peace and normalcy

From new state investment funds to U.S. tariffs, it has been a busy year for Southeast Asia’s economies.

Proponents of Hindu nationalism speak of an empowered “New India.” Critics warn of oppressed minorities and India’s increasingly muscular stance abroad.

Looking closely at how China’s EV sector rose to global dominance offers the United States a chance to discern what to emulate, what to avoid, and how to compete.

For victims of abuse by state actors, accountability often stops at the courtroom door.

China’s expanding role in North Africa reflects a willingness to assume duration and exposure where Europe has chosen restraint.

Gwadar port has often been touted as CPEC’s “crown jewel.” Yet almost two decades after the port began operations, business has been lackluster.

An arduous bureaucratic-judicial exercise and geopolitics could stand in the way of Sheikh Hasina’s extradition from India to Bangladesh.

The targeting of journalists, media houses and cultural institutions in Bangladesh on December 18-19 was neither sudden nor spontaneous. The attacks were coordinated.

The Indian Navy’s combat aviation capability is taking wing.

A group of activists set fire to a portrait of Chinese leader Xi Jinping and the Chinese flag during a demonstration against the continued detention of ethnic Kazakhs in Xinjiang. It could mean the end of their group.

The Kuala Lumpur High Court has dismissed jailed former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s bid to serve the remainder of his sentence for corruption at his home, ruling that a royal document allowing the move was invalid.

Online scamming operations are entangled in the Cambodia-Thailand conflict, but there is no evidence that they were causally responsible for the outbreak of fighting.

China’s H200 curbs suggest a willingness to sacrifice short-term AI performance to escape dependence on the U.S. tech ecosystem.

UAV cooperation with China is rapidly transforming Russia’s capacity for sustained, cost-effective, and scalable warfare – with implications stretching from Europe to the Pacific Ocean.

While the Trump administration’s approach to Taiwan is continuing to coalesce, current signs indicate no dramatic departure from long-standing positions.

The International Court of Justice (ICJ) will next month hear a landmark case accusing Myanmar of committing genocide against the country’s Rohingya minority, the court said on Friday.

A resolution to the Cambodia-Thailand acrimonious border dispute seems remote amid their current conflict, but there could be one viable way forward.